One-off short stories

Memoirs of the Future- Part 2-Brainwashing

Entry 76
I can't believe I'm writing in here again. I can't believe somebody was even able to patch this together. But Kya, she told me I should, as long as I was willing to face any consequences. She also said I had plenty of spirit, and that suprised me. School is still relatively normal. But after all of this, I've started to wonder why they don't let us write things like my diary? Those men in the black suits are bad. Of course, I can't act like that in school, but, I think it's true.

Entry 94
There was a big math test a few days ago. They handed it back to us graded in class today. I got an 100%! When I showed it to my Mom, she said Daddy would be proud. And that makes me happy!

Entry 102
Another kid saw my diary! I'm worried he'll tell a teacher and I could get in trouble again. I mean, what if they burn it this time? This is way too important to me!

Entry 105
Alright, nothing's happened yet. Maybe the other kid didn't report me. I told my Mom and she told me to not worry but that's hard. I'm still not sure what's going to happen, and I don't like that. I wish I could know what would happen next before it happened, but that's impossible.

Entry 112
I think the worst thing is happening. Today in school, I was called into the Principle's office, and my Mom was already there! I was super scared from start to finish. And my Mom had this look on her face like she was going to kill the principle, but she couldn't do anything. Anyways, apparently, because of continued bad behavior, they're going to send me to a special "corrective" school. I don't know what that means, but by the look on my Mom's face let's me know it must be bad. Apparently someone's going to pick me up tomorrow. The worst thing is, I don't get to go home! I have to stay there until "I'm ready to go back to normal school". I don't know what that means. After that horrible news, they sent me home, saying to enjoy you're last day at home as best you could. I got really angry at started yelling at the principle. I yelled every bad word I've heard, and said as many mean things as I could, because they just shouldn't do this to me! My Mom had to pull me away, and she told me that screaming wasn't the best way to resolve things. And that wasn't even the only crazy thing that happened today. Kya came over for dinner, and having eating most of the food, Mommy sent me up to my room. But I listened in to what was being said. I only heard some of the conversation, but it seemed Mommy was talking to Kya about what happened in school today. And Kya didn't say much, but I did hear,"Okay, don't worry. It's a sick place anywhere. She'll be okay, I won't let her lose her spirit." I don't quite know what that meant, but I think she was talking about me. I'm scared of what happens tomorrow. But they even said they would come to my house if I wasn't at school. I don't know why they need to do this? What bad thing did I do? There is something bad going on here, I know it! But for now, all I can do is sleep, because I can't actually do anything.

Entry 113
Today, I did go to school. And I did get taken away by the mean Men in Suits. They took me away to some big prison, at least that was what I thought it was when I first heard about it. Of course, it was the "correction" facility, but I realized that was probably just a nice name for a prison for people who didn't follow the rules. When they first brought me through, I noticed that it wasn't just kids there too. There were all kinds of people. The men took me into my "room", which was really an empty square with a small bed and a tv on every wall. They told me "correctional videos" would play on the TVs. I'm guessing it's like the same kind of things that played on the tv on the day the man ripped up my diary. It did look like I imagined a prison cell to be. I'm scared to see what will happen to me. They said I could keep my Diary, which surprised me, but they also said I would stop caring about it once I became a "model student". I'm really scared.

Entry 114
They started playing the videos today. They said to not have any individual spirit. But Kyasurin said I had spirit and that was good. I don't know what to think. The worst part is that, they don't stop the videos.

Entry 115
There's one other I have noticed that really sucks about this place. Everything is white, and even the TV videos are in black and white. I'm waiting for something to happen, but it never does.

Entry 116
Today I heard a bit of annoyance among the men in suits. There seemed to be something wrong. But I shouldn't ask, because that's wrong. I mean, the videos say that's wrong, not me.

Entry 120
The men said something strange. A guy in white came in, and said that I had a surprising resistance to the brainwashing. I don't know what the last word means though.

Entry 124
I'm scared. The videos are sounding more and more normal. Soon I think I won't even want to write in here soon. If I ever get out, please, I never want this to happen to me again. Please, at least let me still want to write this.

Entry 128
The videos are starting to tell me to crush this. Are they right? I know I used to think they were bad, but I'm not sure anymore. After all, they tell me they're not.

Entry 129
I tried to crush this today, but I heard a voice, I don't remember who it was, but I'm sure I knew the person who said it. That's right I can't crush the diary, because it's important to me. But the videos don't stop! And I'm not sure how long I'll remember this fact this time...

Entry 130
Today things changed. It started with the alarms. I'd never heard them before, and I got a little annoyed. I couldn't hear the TVs with all this noise! And then I heard really loud noises, gunshots maybe. I was really scared. I didn't feel safe in this environment, the videos told me to never do anything that could make me or anyone feel unsafe. And then, after a while, the cell doors opened, and I got to see what it was like outside my room for the first time in so long. There was someone there waiting for me. Who was she again? She said,"Hello Kay. I'm glad to see you still have spirit." And then my mouth spoke without thinking,"Kya?" I remembered everything,"Just who are you?" She responded with,"I'll tell you later, for now we need to get out of here." She's so cool, I already am writing this even though I'm only on my way back from the "correctional"... no, I mean, the prison. I'm finally free!